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Top companies: Fastest growing
1 Best Buy 66 90.4
2 Perini 499 79.8
3 Eastman Kodak 238 72.6
4 Hess 77 71.1
5 United Stationers 496 65.4
6 ProLogis 387 58.3
7 CVS Caremark 24 49.3
8 Qwest Communications 187 45.8
9 NCR 391 45.6
10 XTO Energy 436 43.6
11 Holly 484 40.6
12 Calpine 318 39.2
13 Frontier Oil 462 38.9
14 Coventry Health Care 266 37.9
15 NVR 464 37.9
16 Qualcomm 297 37.7
17 Valero Energy 16 35.2
18 Terex 287 34.6
19 Oshkosh 383 33.8
20 Anadarko Petroleum 159 33.6
21 Express Scripts 135 32.8
22 UnitedHealth Group 25 28.3
23 Apache 262 27.9
24 MGM Mirage 323 27.4
25 C.H. Robinson Worldwide 341 27.2
26 Bed Bath & Beyond 368 26.8
27 Emcor Group 407 26.2
28 Starbucks 277 25.8
29 Commercial Metals 303 24.8
30 ITT 285 24.7
31 Charles Schwab 402 24.5
32 Fortune Brands 311 24.1
33 Sonic Automotive 298 23.2
34 BJ Services 482 23.1
35 Mohawk Industries 328 23.0
36 Constellation Brands 459 22.8
37 National Oilwell Varco 268 22.6
38 Stryker 401 22.5
39 Reliance Steel & Aluminum 345 22.3
40 Baker Hughes 252 22.3
41 Kohl's 152 22.3
42 Devon Energy 221 22.1
43 Lowe's 48 21.9
44 Marathon Oil 36 21.8
45 Tesoro 116 21.7
46 Precision Castparts 444 21.7
47 Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold 140 21.6
48 Cisco Systems 71 21.4
49 Symantec 461 21.4
50 AutoZone 394 20.9
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